1902 in art
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- Georges BraqueGeorges BraqueGeorges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...
begins his studies at the Academie Humbert, where he meets Marie LaurencinMarie LaurencinMarie Laurencin was a French painter and printmaker. -Biography:Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres...
and Francis PicabiaFrancis PicabiaFrancis Picabia was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements.- Early life :...
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- Helen AllinghamHelen Allingham__NOEDITSECTION__Helen Allingham was an English watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.-Biography:...
- View of Blackdown - Frank Weston BensonFrank Weston BensonFrank Weston Benson, frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson, was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts known for his Realistic portraits, American Impressionist paintings, watercolors and etchings. He began his career painting portraits of distinguished families and murals for the...
- Eleanor Holding a Shell - Pierre BonnardPierre BonnardPierre Bonnard was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of Les Nabis.-Biography:...
- The Terrasse Children with Black Dog - Vilhelm HammershøiVilhelm HammershøiVilhelm Hammershøi , often written in English Vilhelm Hammershoi , was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, low-key portraits and interiors. In 1997, Denmark issued a postage stamp in his honor.-Life:...
- Five Portraits - Gwen JohnGwen JohnGwendolen Mary John was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. She is noted for her still lifes and for her portraits, especially of anonymous female sitters...
- Self-Portrait (Tate GalleryTate GalleryThe Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
) - Max LiebermannMax LiebermannMax Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter and printmaker best known for his etching and lithography.-Biography:...
- Terrace at the Restaurant Jacob in Niestedten on the Elbe
January to June
- 30 January - Nikolaus PevsnerNikolaus PevsnerSir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, FBA was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
-born BritishUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
art historian (d.19831983 in art-Works:* Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet of fabric....
). - 20 February - Ansel AdamsAnsel AdamsAnsel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
photographer (d.19841984 in art-Works:*Felim Egan - Battle of Hercules and Antaeus*John Doubleday - Statue of Dylan Thomas -January to June:*6 February - Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany ....
). - 26 February - Jean BrullerJean BrullerJean Marcel Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure and Yvonne Paraf. During the World War II occupation of northern France he joined the Resistance and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors.Several of his novels have...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
writerWriterA writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and illustratorIllustratorAn Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
(d.19911991 in art-Events:*14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.*Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art....
). - 27 February - Ľudovít FullaLudovít FullaĽudovít Fulla was a Slovak painter, graphic artist, illustrator, stage designer and art teacher. He is considered one of the most important figures of Slovakian Creative Art in the 20th century....
, SlovakSlovaksThe Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, graphic artist, illustratorIllustratorAn Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
, stage designer and art teacher (d.19801980 in art-Events:* May–September - Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States....
). - March 3 - Isabel BishopIsabel BishopIsabel Bishop was an American painter and graphic artist, who produced numerous paintings and prints of working women in realistic urban settings...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and graphic artistGraphic designGraphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
(b.19881988 in art-Events:*Opening of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Fred Cress – John Beard*Turner Prize – Tony Cragg-January to June:*19 March – Isabel Bishop, American painter and graphic artist ....
). - April 2 - Jan TschicholdJan TschicholdJan Tschichold was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer.-Life:Tschichold was the son of a provincial signwriter, and he was trained in calligraphy...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
typographerTypographyTypography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...
, book designer, teacher and writer (b.19741974 in art-Births:* 31 May - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.* 16 June - Paul Lee, English artist.* 1 September - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.* 8 November - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist....
) - April 26 - Isaac SoyerIsaac SoyerIsaac Soyer was a social realist painter and often portrayed working-class people of New York City in his paintings.-Biography:...
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n-born AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, (d. 19811981 in art-Events:* 10 September - Picasso's painting Guernica is returned from New York to Madrid.-Works:*Tony Cragg - Britain as Seen from the North*John Doubleday - Statue of Charlie Chaplin...
) - May 24 - Sylvia DaoustSylvia DaoustSylvia Daoust, CM, CQ , born in Montreal, was one of the first female sculptors in Quebec. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal , but also studied in Europe...
, CanadianCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
sculptor (d.20042004 in artThe year 2004 in art involved some significant events.-Events:*24 May – A fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroys major works by Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst and other British artists.-Awards:...
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July to December
- September 18 - Pietro PezzatiPietro PezzatiPietro Pezzati or Peter Pezzati may refer to:*Pietro Pezzati , Italian mural painter*Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati , American portrait painter...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(d.19931993 in artThe year 1993 in art involved some significant events.-Events:* 7 March – Beavis and Butt-head first appears on MTV.* May – Jay Jopling opens the London gallery White Cube...
) - September 28 - Kenzo OkadaKenzo OkadaKenzo Okada was a Japanese-born American painter.According to Michelle Stuart, “when Okada came to the United States he was already a mature painter, well considered in his native Japan...
, painter (d.19821982 in art-Events:*Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.*Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall....
) - October 10 - Dick KetDick KetDick Ket was a Dutch magic realist painter noted for his still lifes and self-portraits.-Biography:...
, painter (d.19401940 in art-Events:*Xawery Dunikowski is deported to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he survives until 1945.*October - Grandma Moses' first solo exhibition, "What a Farm Wife Painted", opens at Otto Kallir's Galerie Saint-Etienne in New York City.-Paintings:...
) - November 4 - Pierre Edouard Leopold VergerPierre Edouard Leopold VergerPierre Edouard Leopold Verger, alias Fatumbi or Fátúmbí was a photographer, self-taught ethnographer, and babalawo who devoted most of his life to the study of the African diaspora — the slave trade, the African-based religions of the new world, and the resulting cultural and...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
photographerPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
and ethnographerEthnographyEthnography is a qualitative method aimed to learn and understand cultural phenomena which reflect the knowledge and system of meanings guiding the life of a cultural group...
(d.19961996 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait as Diana of Erskineville*Jan Amos Comenius Medal – Yaacov Agam, for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children* The Inaugural Hugo Boss Prize – Matthew Barney...
). - November 11 - Ernő GoldfingerErno GoldfingerErnő Goldfinger was a Hungarian-born Jewish architect and designer of furniture, and a key member of the architectural Modern Movement after he had moved to the United Kingdom.-Biography:Goldfinger was born in Budapest...
, HungarianHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
-born architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
and furnitureFurnitureFurniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
designer (d.19871987 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait*Turner Prize – Richard Deacon-January to June:*18 February – William Coldstream, English realist painter ....
). - November - Peter PitseolakPeter PitseolakPeter Pitseolak was an Inuit photographer, artist and historian.-Life:]...
, InuitInuitThe Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...
photographer, artist and historian (d.19731973 in art-Events:*Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas."-Exhibitions:*Christopher Williams - centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.-Works:...
). - December 8 - Wifredo LamWifredo LamWifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla , better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture...
, CubaCubaThe Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
n artist (d.19821982 in art-Events:*Andy Warhol "falls in love" with Duran Duran at a Blondie concert.*Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe's animations play a major part in the success of the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall....
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- Lee GatchLee GatchLee Gatch , an American artist, was born in a rural community near Baltimore. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in the early 1920s and then studied in Europe for a few years before returning to the United States...
, painter and muralist (d.19681968 in art-Events:*Chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto.-Awards:*Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon - Lloyd Rees*Elaine Hamilton wins first prize at the Biennale de Menton, France-Exhibitions:...
). - I. Rice PereiraI. Rice PereiraIrene Rice Pereira was an American abstract artist, known for her work in the Geometric abstraction, Abstract expressionist, and Lyrical Abstraction genres and her use of the principles of the Bauhaus school....
, painter (d.19711971 in art-Works:*Hans Haacke - Real Time Social System*David Hockney - Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy*Fritz Koenig - Great Spherical Caryatid , designed for the World Trade Center, now in Battery Park, NYC...
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- February 7 - Thomas Sidney CooperThomas Sidney CooperThomas Sidney Cooper was an English landscape painter noted for his images of cattle and farm animals.Cooper was born at Canterbury, Kent, and as a small child he began to show strong artistic inclinations, but the circumstances of his family did not allow him to received any systematic training...
, painter of farm scenes (b. 18031803 in art-Awards:The Prix de Rome is expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category.* Grand Prix de Rome, painting:* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:* Grand Prix de Rome, music: Albert Androt.-Births:...
) - February 18 - Albert BierstadtAlbert BierstadtAlbert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion...
, painter (b. 18301830 in art-Events:*Clarkson Stanfield's panorama The Military Pass of the Simplon is featured in a Christmas pantomime in London.*Approximate beginning of the Barbizon school of painters.-Works:*George Catlin – General William Clark...
) - March 21 - Vincenzo CabiancaVincenzo CabiancaVincenzo Cabianca was an Italian artist of the Macchiaioli group.He was born in Verona. He began his artistic training at the Verona Academy, and then studied at the Venice Academy from 1845–47. During the 1850s Cabianca became acquainted with the artists who frequented the Caffè Michelangiolo in...
, Italian painter (b. 18271827 in art-Works:*Karl Briullov – Italian Midday*George Catlin – Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls*Thomas Cole – Autumn in the Catskills*John Constable – The Cornfield*Eugène Delacroix** Death of Sardanapalus** Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi...
) - April 12 - Ernest GambartErnest GambartJean Joseph Ernest Theodore Gambart was a Belgian-born English art publisher and dealer who dominated the London art world in the middle of the nineteenth century.-Life and career:...
, art dealer (b. 18141814 in art-Works:* Francisco Goya – The executions of the Third of May 1808.* Jacques-Louis David – Leonidas at Thermopylae-Births:*March 3 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-Australian painter *March 22 – Thomas Crawford, sculptor...
) - April 15 - Jules DalouJules DalouAimé-Jules Dalou was a French sculptor, recognized as one of the most brilliant virtuosos of nineteenth-century France, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.-Life:...
, sculptor (b. 18381838 in art-Events:*August 31 - David Roberts sets sail for Egypt, with the encouragement of J. M. W. Turner, to produce a series of drawings for use as the basis for the paintings and lithographs.-Works:...
) - June 11 - Otto EckmannOtto EckmannOtto Eckmann was a German painter and graphic artist. He was a prominent member of the "floral" branch of Jugendstil. He created the Eckmann typeface, which was based on Japanese calligraphy....
, German painter and graphic artist (b. 18651865 in art-Events:*July 21 - Charles Dodgson photographs Effie Gray Millais, John Everett Millais, and their daughters Effie and Mary at 7 Cromwell Place*Ford Madox Brown completes his painting Work after thirteen years....
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- James TissotJames TissotJames Jacques Joseph Tissot was a French painter, who spent much of his career in Britain.-Biography:Tissot was born in Nantes, France. In about 1856, he began study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Hippolyte Flandrin and Lamothe, and became friendly with Edgar Degas and James Abbott...
, painter (b. 18361836 in art-Works:*Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Diana Surprised By Actaeon*Antoine Wiertz – Les Grecs et les Troyens se disputant le corps de Patrocle-Births:*January 8 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter...
) - John Henry TwachtmanJohn Henry TwachtmanJohn Henry Twachtman was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation...
, American impressionistAmerican ImpressionismImpressionism, a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors, was practiced widely among American artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-An emerging artistic style from Paris:...
painter and member of the Cos Cob Art ColonyCos Cob Art ColonyThe Cos Cob Art Colony was a group of artists, many of them American Impressionists, who gathered in and around Cos Cob, a section of Greenwich, Connecticut, from about 1890 to about 1920....
- James Tissot
- December 7 - Thomas NastThomas NastThomas Nast was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall machine...
, cartoonist (b. 18401840 in art-Works:*Francis Danby – The Deluge*Eugène Delacroix – Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople *Edwin Landseer – Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury...
) - date unknown - Matthew Ridley CorbetMatthew Ridley CorbetMatthew Ridley Corbet was a Victorian neoclassical painter who attended classes at the Slade School of Art under Alexander Davis Cooper and later at the Royal Academy Schools under Frederic Leighton, President of the Academy. Corbet went to Italy in 1880 and met Giovanni Costa, one of Leighton's...
, neoclassical painter (b. 18501850 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.*Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.-Awards:* Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:...
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